Is there any other trick to speed it up? This may not be a Mojave-specific issue, though. Not every solution works, but here are 3 simple fixes that completely solved the issue for me (Using Windows Server 2012 & 2012R2 with Mac OS X 10.9 & 10.10). All the machines have SMB signing disabled as per Apple's recommendation. Posts: 34 Joined: Nov 2005 Reputation: 0. mobius60 Junior Member Posts: 34 #15. Normally, people judge the efficiency of their … By the way, I was running under AFP but I switched to SMB in the last few days. I agree it is strange an OS is making the NAS browsing slow but it is a fact that on the same network, high sierra machines are browsing fast (old mac pro's 4.1 flashed to 5.1) but the 2015 27" iMac is slow after the upgrade. After having upgraded to Big Sur I keep having time machine problems. Other than that I am running faster with the 1817+. Before I did though, I decided to try living with Sierra for a while…Guess what, everything works, including games and other 32-bit apps I gave up on. I need to speed up very slow loading (browsing) of shared files via SMB (Windows 2012) on my MAC with Mojavo OS. All okay. Many things can make the Mojave slow down ranging from having too much on the drive to a corrupted SMC. I love my mac again. Further answers: both AFP and SMB are tried (and SMB with different settings) but both are slow browsing. I laughed, thinking I’d do a clean install of big sure from USB. The problem is really specific to SMB on Mac. It's a common complaint that in recent versions of Mac OS 10.x, browsing Windows-hosted SMB shares is incredibly slow. mobius60 Junior Member. No lagging, no bugs, no random disconnects from gmail…SMB shares working again, no wi-fi troubles. 6. First, turn off your computer. Now, to reset your computer’s NVRAM, check out the steps below. Curiously, write speeds when writing from Mac to Windows or Linux, are much better. The slow speed is when transferring files between two Macs or when the Mac is reading from a Win/Linux share. The 8T HD took 20 hours and the 10T drive took 24 hours. I also changed this option on Windows 2012 : set-smbserverconfiguration -smb2creditsmin 512 -smb2creditsmax 8192 Reply. The reproducible problem (file sharing Mac is one with Mojave): if only SMB is enabled for file sharing, the Finder will crash in nice regularity, no matter if on 10.14.5 or 10.13.6.The Finder crashes so irretrievably that it can't be brought back to life even with a Force Quit via cmd + alt + esc. Mac runs slow after installing macOS 10.14 Mojave If your Mac is running slowly after installing macOS Mojave, the problem might be caused by third-party apps launching automatically at … Mac running slow after Mojave update. Try to analyze the situation and note when the Mac is at its slowest. This setup became necessary with Mojave as then I wasn't able to use AFP anymore, and it had been working OK ever since. I stream, movies, TV shows and music. Next, locate the Option + Command + P + R keys on your keyboard but don’t press it yet. I am using a Synology NAS to which I connect via SMB. So you’ve successfully installed macOS 10.14 Mojave to find out that your Mac’s performance got worse. The 413j is older technology that is slow and non expandable. Very slow file transfer on Mac Shares (SMB/AFP) Posted on August 29, 2018 by josiah Once I implemented this fix I went from getting 10MB/s to getting over 500MB/s+ (both read & write) on my Mac laptop connected over Wifi. The expansion and consistency check took forever. ; Lastly, press the Power button on your Mac and immediately hold the Option + Command + P + R keys on your keyboard and continue holding it for 20 seconds. Only way I can get SMB access to shares tho is via the method in Post #1 This is accessing the shares with 3 Kodi clients, 2 ATV1's and a RPi B+ Find. Mojave smb slow. No matter what the cause is, it needs to be established so that the right solution is applied in solving the problem. ; Once you …